Custard’s Tart

Custardtart · Postby **Custardtart** » Sat Mar 07, 2020 8:34 pm

RS2000 wrote:
Red_Bullet wrote:Hawk Blues, Very abrasive on rotors, 1 set of pads = 1 set of rotors, plus they expel molten iron onto your wheels that doesn't clean off, embeds molten rotor/pad material on your wheels which then oxides (rust).

Exactly what I found! With white BC P1 Racing wheels, I had to use a hard plastic scraper & cutting compound, but never got them totally clean.
Carbotech XP10 are great, but expensive.

Where do you get the Carbotechs from?

Snowmotion · Postby **Snowmotion** » Sat Mar 07, 2020 10:26 pm

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You can order online.. www.carbotech.com.au

RS2000 · Postby **RS2000** » Sun Mar 08, 2020 8:17 am

Custardtart wrote:Where do you get the Carbotechs from?

Deckspeed in Sydney are distributors http://deckspeedracing.com.au/

RS2000 · Postby **RS2000** » Sun Mar 08, 2020 8:23 am

Just realised carbotech.com.au & deckspeedracing.com.au are the same mob

Custardtart · Postby **Custardtart** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:41 pm

So I still have no rotors. It’s been almost 6 weeks since I ordered them and I’ve been told several times they were arriving on a certain day only for nothing to show up. With practice on Friday they have to arrive tomorrow or I’m stuffed.
Regardless of the outcome and several other dealings, I’ll never touch DBA or Brakes Direct again.

Red_Bullet · Postby **Red_Bullet** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:32 am

Has Mazda got any stock rotors?

https://www.yellowpages.com.au/qld/eagle-farm/eagers-mazda-1000001853702-listing.html

Custardtart · Postby **Custardtart** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:13 am

Red_Bullet wrote:Has Mazda got any stock rotors?

https://www.yellowpages.com.au/qld/eagle-farm/eagers-mazda-1000001853702-listing.html

Thanks for that.

They just turned up! No notice of shipment but I can fit them tonight so crisis averted!

Custardtart · Postby **Custardtart** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:06 pm

Interesting that the DBA T3 rotors are the same thickness as the OEM ones with 10,000km’s and 6 track days on them.
For weight weenies the OEM’s weighed 13.5lb’s each and the DBA’s are 12.8lbs.

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Red_Bullet · Postby **Red_Bullet** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:45 am

Yeah, but the T3's look the business....

Magpie · Postby **Magpie** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:42 pm

T3’s will last the same as OEM rotors and do not have any special cooling abilities...

Custardtart · Postby **Custardtart** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:53 pm

Red_Bullet wrote:Yeah, but the T3's look the business....

They certainly do :lol:

Custardtart · Postby **Custardtart** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:55 pm

Magpie wrote:T3’s will last the same as OEM rotors and do not have any special cooling abilities...

Looks like the T3’s aren’t worth the extra over oem discs

greenMachine · Postby **greenMachine** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 4:28 pm

Time for a BBK? Not necessarily for a larger diameter rotor, but for the weight savings from aluminium hats and calipers, some of which can be sacrificed for thicker rotors.

:mrgreen:

Custardtart · Postby **Custardtart** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:04 pm

greenMachine wrote:Time for a BBK? Not necessarily for a larger diameter rotor, but for the weight savings from aluminium hats and calipers, some of which can be sacrificed for thicker rotors.

Yes worth it for weight savings only. Won’t bother on this car though as there’s no point chasing grams as I think this car’s time is coming to an end!

Custardtart · Postby **Custardtart** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:19 pm

Had a mixed time at the Lakeside Tribute meeting this weekend.
The point of it all for me was to see if I was still interested in circuit racing and hence wether I’d build a dedicated track car. The Tart is really a bit too compromised as a daily now and it was such a sweet road car.
On the plus side I definitely enjoyed the whole event but on the downside I over revved the engine and spun the crank bolt on the last lap of qualifying.
By the time I’d organised a trailer and got the car home it was too late to fix before the next day’s racing so I took my little boy back on Sunday and we had a great day spectating.
After watching some pretty ordinary driving over the weekend I was convinced I need a full cage and I’m now hatching a plan....
On the flip side there was some exceptional driving, particularly MX5’s of Tim and Shane. I mean, seriously, an NA that’s as fast as a well dríven Porsche GT3 Cup car for gods sake!!! Hugely impressive. As was Shane’s NA in a class of its own with metronomic consistency.
So I’ve been busy in the shed clearing space to strip the Tart of her racing goodies and return her to stock (and sale) and then I’ll be saving my pennies for a track build.
Sorry to bring the dreaded Coronavirus topic up but it was interesting to have doctor from QLD health spend 10 mins on the topic at the drivers briefing, she was taking it very seriously.

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